But in a new twist, Canada's Sun News Network announced that Ford and his brother Doug will begin hosting their own TV show on Monday. The show, "Ford Nation," picks up where the two brothers left off on a talk radio show that ended its run last week, the network said on its website. A headline on that site posed the question, "Canada's Ultimate Reality Show?" And it quoted Doug Ford saying, "Rob is like Howard Stern or Rush Limbaugh" and "You just never know what he is going to say."

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The one thing he will not do is devour strange cats. Because he said this week that he did not devour strange cats. Or something like that.

More interesting stuff from the pope. I'm not sure I buy the argument from Time entirely. (Nor do I buy the notion of the previous two popes having been conspicuous champions either of environmental justice or economic justice. A couple of encyclicals that nobody read. John Paul II put more effort into canonizing nutballs like the founder of Opus Dei.) I think the pope knew exactly what he was doing when these guys handed him the T-shirt. Could be I'm just reading into it, but it's not like these two guys threw the shirt at him. And one can certainly be concerned with the plight of the poor and be opposed to fracking -- and the extraction industries generally -- at the same time.

An exorcism, which often refers to a rite performed on an individual, is applicable in the case of same-sex marriage because the devil can appear "in various forms of opposition to and persecution of the church," the diocese of Springfield said in statement."All politicians now have the moral obligation to work for the repeal of this sinful and objectionable legislation," Paprocki said. "We must pray for deliverance from this evil which has penetrated our state and our church."

All members of the Catholic hierarchy are now forbidden from using the word "penetrated" for the foreseeable future. Sincerely, Jesus.

I have felt this all along. So much of what Bill Maher thinks is edgy -- his pot smoking, his atheism, his canoodling friendship with Ann Coulter -- is nothing more than pure Ivy League snobbery. He's better than you are, morons. Piss off, Bill.

Renouncing your citizenship? OK. Goodbye. Seriously. Don't come back. Don't send your coddled and entitled spalpeens back here to go to college and puke on the land you abandoned. Take your Jesus Capitalism with you. Hell, take Willard Romney with you. Go live on an island somewhere and eat your own dead.

There was an uptick in expatriation at the beginning of President Obama's first term, which has been attributed both to anticipation of more burdensome taxation policies and to increased tax enforcement against expatriates. Indeed, the Journal notes that those who renounced last year may have done so to avoid a higher capital gains tax, and also points to the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, which makes it tougher for Americans to hide assets in offshore accounts.

Fewer wealthy deadbeats? Works for me.

(Don't read the comments. You'll be 15 minutes dumber than when you started.

That's it for this week. We'll be back Monday with what I am sure will be some Obama's Katrina gobshitery from people who never will have to choose between food and medicine. Be well and play nice, ya bastids, or I'm sending Rob Ford to your place to party down.